APub: Nested masters or fields

[GeirSol]

Hi! I have 8 master-pages times 4 projects.
They all have a common footer. Is there any way to set the footer only one place, and then have the different masters update automatically?

[dominik]

6 minutes ago, GeirSol said:

Hi! I have 8 master-pages times 4 projects.
They all have a common footer. Is there any way to set the footer only one place, and then have the different masters update automatically?

Hello @GeirSol,

you can apply masterpages to masterpages. That way you could have only one masterpage with the footer on it. This applied to all other masterpages lets you change the footer in just one place.

Question re. '4 projects': do you mean these are in seperat APub files? Masterpages work only within one file. You could look into the book feature if that will let you syncronize across multiple documents. I haven't tested that, though.

d.

[GeirSol]

4 minutes ago, dominik said:

Hello @GeirSol,

you can apply masterpages to masterpages. That way you could have only one masterpage with the footer on it. This applied to all other masterpages lets you change the footer in just one place.

Question re. '4 projects': do you mean these are in seperat APub files? Masterpages work only within one file. You could look into the book feature if that will let you syncronize across multiple documents. I haven't tested that, though.

d.

So, nested masters is fine. Good

Yes, it's 4 separate files. I'll look into fields and data merge.

[GeirSol]

I believe custom fields are ok for me here.

[MikeTO]

28 minutes ago, GeirSol said:

So, nested masters is fine. Good

I provided examples of doing this in the free Publisher PDF manual I've shared here in this forum (link below). The master page setup I used to create that manual included one with the footer for the chapter (section) name and page number and other masters for body pages, chapter title pages, and front/back matter pages. The footer master was applied to the other masters and only the other masters were applied to the document pages.

You can do it the other way, too. Create the same masters but instead of applying the footer master to the other masters you can apply both the footer master and the other master to a document page. I think that's more work and is more prone to error but there are use cases where you might want to manually apply multiple masters to the same document page.

Cheers

[GeirSol]

Looking closer, nested masters seems better in this case.